Patient Rob Shuter featured on Gotham Magazine

A recent article on www.gotham-magazine.com highlights Glassman Dental Care patient Rob Shuter and his journey from celebrity publicist to "Naughty But Nice" talk show host. Check out the article here!

- Dr. Debra Glassman featured in New York Metro News article

Recently Dr. Glassman was interviewed for a Canadian television program on gap toothed models, and just this week, was featured in another article on Metro New York. As the article explains- the gap-toothed look has only grown in popularity, and many patients have worked with us to achieve the look the are seeking. There are some factors to consider if you are thinking about undergoing a gap-toothed procedure, please schedule an appointment with Manhattan Cosmetic Dentists Drs. Debra & Steven Glassman to discuss your options today!

Reichen & Dr. Deb - Whole Body Health

Reichen Lehmkuhl interviews Dr. Debra Glassman of Glassman Dental Care in New York City (NYC).

Dr. Debra Glassman Featured on Oral Care and Health Daily

In a recent Oral Care and Health Daily article, Dr. Debra Glassman shares "8 Ways to Reduce Your Holiday Stress." We know the holidays can be a stressful time of year, so we encourage you to check out her tips! We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving weekend!

If you have any question about Dr. Debra's tips, give us a call or ask us on Facebook!

Dr. Debra Glassman Featured on Canada's Fashion TV

On Sunday, Dr. Debra was featured in a segment on Canada's Fashion TV channel talking about the gap-toothed model trend. Click here to view the video.

Dr. Debra in the New York Times

Check out Dr. Debra's featured article in the Frequent Flyer section of the New York Times!

Patient and Artist Jeff Koons's "Ballon Flower (Blue)"

Glassman Dental Care patient Jeff Koons's "Balloon Flower (Blue)" will hit the auction block at Christie's in New York on November 10th carrying with it a $12-$16 million estimate. Best of luck on another successful sale!

A Radiant Smile Just in Time for the Wedding

Congratulations to patient Jennifer Sapp on her wedding at Solage Resort in Calistoga, California. She attributes her radient smile to the fantastic work Manhattan cosmetic dentist Dr. Steven did using Invisalign to straighten her teeth. Keep smiling, Jennifer!

Dr. Debra Glassman at the New York Fashion Week Runway Show

Designer Elene Cassis dressed Dr. Debra Glassman in a classic look from her 2010 Fall Collection for her New York Fashion Week runway show at Exit Art. Check out all the photos on our Facebook page!

Glassman Dental Care at The Great Bridal Expo

Glassman Dental Care is participating in The Great Bridal Expo on Tuesday, October 19th at the Marriott New York Marquis Times Square. Promotional offerings include $350 off Invisalign, $100 off Zoom Advanced Power whitening and $250 off veneer treatment. Our Grand Prize Sweepstakes offering is a complimentary in-office Zoom Advanced Power whitening with customized take-home trays (reg. $600). The first 100 visitors to our booth event will also receive a complimentary tube of Dr. Debra Glassman’s Starbrite celebrity whitening toothpaste! For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the Great Bridal Expo website!

Patient Jennifer Hudson On "Winnie" Set

Oscar and Grammy winner (and Glassman Dental Care Patient) Jennifer Hudson is currently on set filming “Winnie,” where she plays the wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela (played by Terrance Howard).

NY Fashion Week and the Starbrite Celebrity Home Whitening System

As you may know, this week marks New York City’s Fashion Week. Throughout the week, the latest and greatest in designer fashions will be in the spotlight, paired with the dazzling smiles on the runway. With New York’s Fashion Week in full swing, now is the perfect time to think about improving your smile with the Starbrite Celebrity Home Whitening system. The Glassmans were recently featured on The Fashion Spot, in an article on achieving that sparkling celebrity smile. The Starbrite system is unique in that it provides professional quality whitening and delivering immediate whitening results from the comfort of your own home.

Many of the patients we work with are celebrities, models, and Broadway stars, but they aren’t the only patients who tell us they want to achieve a whiter smile! Check out the Starbrite Celebrity Home Whitening system yourself in specialty salons across Manhattan, as well as at Victoria’s Secret. Or, feel free to ask us about Starbrite on your next appointment!

Cosmetic Dentist NYC - Arlene Describes Her Experience

NYC Dentist Glassman Dental Care worked with Arlene to improve her smile, and she wanted to share her experience in this video- check it out!

StarBrite at the ZOOEY Magazine Launch Event

StarBrite was a sponsor at the ZOOEY Magazine Launch Event in Los Angeles on August 15, 2010. Printed on 100% recycled paper, ZOOEY is among one of the first eco-friendly magazines to hit newsstands and aims to be the monthly entertainment handbook for females in their late teens and early twenties. We've included a few photos of the launch party on our Facebook page, be sure to check them out!

Smile Makeover: Porcelain Veneers from Glassman Dental Care

Carlene hated her smile, and even tried braces when she was younger. While in New York City, she heard about the cosmetic dentistry being done by Dr. Debra Glassman, and was given an affordable plan that met Carlene's needs. Now she smiles with confidence!

What is Your Glassman Experience?

At Glassman Dental Care, we work hard to create the best end results for our patients through cosmetic, implant, and general dental procedures. Both doctors and our team are committed to helping you achieve your oral health goals. So we wanted to ask you- What is your "Glassman Experience"? Leave a review or a testimonial for us on Google today!

Zoom!® Whitening at Glassman Dental Care

A whiter smile is one just one dentist visit away! ZOOM!® Smile Whitening brightens and whitens your teeth in just 45 minutes. Once you have gone through the Zoom!® treatment we will send you home with an at-home whitening bleaching kit with custom made trays. Using the take home trays will allow you to maintain your desired level of whitening over several months.

While Zoom!® Smile Whitening is a great way to enhance the appearance of your smile, it's not always for everyone. Those with deep, dark stains that remain unaffected by whitening treatments and patients with regular tooth sensitivity may not be good candidates. Find out more about Zoom!® Smile Whitening at our web site; and when you are ready to have a whiter, brighter smile contact Glassman Dental Care in the Upper West Side of Manhattan for an evaluation!
 

Ask Glassman Dental Care: Is Invisalign® really customized for each patient?

Yes, it is, and that’s part of what makes it work. To find out if you are the right candidate for Invisalign treatment, the first thing we do is to take an impression of your teeth as they are now and digitize it. Using special software, we look at the current positioning of your teeth and compare it to the way your teeth should look.

Next we use special software to map out the exact path your teeth will take from the beginning of your treatment to the end. Based on the results, a set of custom aligners are created just for your teeth. Throughout the course of treatment, you will be required to wear these clear, removable aligners one at a time; each one moving your teeth closer and closer to their final, perfectly aligned position. The best thing about it all? Nobody around you will even know you are wearing braces!
Dr. Steven Glassman is a certified Invisalign Premier provider in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. If you have questions about Invisalign, or would like to find out if you are a candidate for Invisalign treatment, please give us a call.

Robert Describes How Invisalign Has Improved His Smile

Manhattan cosmetic dentist Dr. Steven Glassman worked with Robert to improve his smile and straighten his bite with Invisalign. In the video, Robert explains how happy he is to see the improvement to his smile, and the boost in confidence that has come with it.

We are also excited to announce that Dr. Steven Glassman was awarded the Invisalign Premier Provider status for 2010, making Glassman Dental Care one of the top Invisalign providers in the country!

Glassman Dental Care is a cosmetic dental practice in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Drs. Steven and Debra Glassman and internationally recognized, and work with many celebrity patients to improve their smiles. Learn more about Invisalign on our web site today!

Patient Feature - Sinorice Moss Launches Dare to Dream

Patient Sinorice Moss of the New York Giants launches Dare to Dream, which helps high-schoolers set and meet target dreams. An article featuring the program was recently published in the Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Debra featured in 'Beauty and the Burbs'

Dr. Debra was recently featured on Beauty and the Burbs, a fashion and beauty tip blog, to discuss oral health and whiter teeth. Check out the article today!

Manhattan Celebrity Dentist Teeth Whitening Promo featured in Elle.com

Have you ever wondered how celebrities maintain their vibrant, white smiles? Dr. Debra Glassman helped to answer this age-old question on Elle Magazine's web site, in an article entitled "Teeth Whitening: Celebrity Dentists’ Tips for a Brighter Smile".

In the article, Dr. Glassman, along with other top celebrity dentists, provides simple tips and strategies for a brighter smile. For example, did you know that fruits high in citric acid can erode tooth enamel away? If you are a heavy coffee or tea drinker, it is also important to wash your mouth with water afterward to stop stains from forming, as Dr. Glassman explains.

Professional in-office teeth whitening can also be an effective solution, at at Glassman Dental Care, we specialize in whitening procedures, which typically take around 45 mintues, and improve the whiteness of your teeth by 8 to 10 shades! You can read the entire article by clicking here. Call our Manhattan dental practice today to learn more about the cosmetic whitening procedures we offer, or visit our web site!

Invisalign Open House - July 21st

Join us for our Invisalign Open House, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. If you’re uncomfortable with your teeth, you could be holding back who you really are. But Invisalign’s clear, custom-designed aligners can be an inconspicuous and removable way to get a beautiful new smile. Many complex cases that once required braces can be treated with Invisalign, often in about a year. So come to our Invisalign only day and see if Invisalign is right for you. And let the real you bloom with a new smile.

Straight Teeth are within reach. Call today for a free, no--obligation consultation. We will even provide complimentary teeth whitening when you begin treatment with Invisalign. Offer expires July 21st, 2010. You can also check out some of our incredible patient testimonials on our web site.

Summer Teeth Whitening Special in Manhattan: $375 (reg. $450)

Glassman Dental Care is now offering Opalescence Boost in-office teeth whitening! Opalescence Boost is a powerful, in-office whitening treatment. Through enhanced chemical activation, the product activates itself as it sits on your teeth, eliminating the need to use a laser or a light for activation. And, in about an hour, you’ll have noticeably whiter teeth.

Boost whitening gels have desensitizing agents in them – both the potassium nitrate and fluoride in Opalescence whitening gels help to ease the discomfort of whitening. Findings have confirmed that whitening with Boost actually reduces cavities, minimizes sensitivity, increases enamel hardness, and improves the overall health of your teeth.

Call our office today at 1-866-907-9042 to schedule your Boost whitening appointment and take advantage of our introductory rate!

Invisalign Treatment in Manhattan- A Patient's Perspective

Are you wondering how Invisalign treatment works? Are the rumors true? Watch this video to hear Hilary's story. Invisalign is a fantastic way to improve your smile, and virtually no one will notice you are wearing aligners at all! Dr. Steven Glassman is an Elite Premier Provider of Invisalign, placing him in the top 1% of all Invisalign doctors nationwide. Dr. Glassman lectures internationally on the benefits and best practices with Invisalign.

Head to our web site to learn more about Invisalign in New York City!

Patient Jaclyn Santos Featured on Bravo's "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist"

Patient Jaclyn Santos will be featured in the new Bravo reality show “Work Of Art: The Next Great Artist”. Series Premiere airs Wednesday, June 9th @ 11:00 PM! You can also check out the official show web site at www.bravotv.com/work-of-art

Check out the video below that we made with Jaclyn, where she describes her treatment here at Glassman Dental Care:

Patient and Celebrity Jennifer Hudson on the cover of People Magazine

Jennifer Hudson (a patient of ours) on the cover of People Magazine

Patient Beth Chamberlin Receives Daytime Emmy Nomination

Congratulations to Glassman Dental Care patient Beth Chamberlin, who recently received a Daytime Emmy nomination for her role as Beth Raines on Guiding Light!

Invisalign® Tips, from Glassman Dental Care

Many people know that Invisalign is a great solution to braces if you don't want to experience the look and feel of traditional metal braces. What few people know, though, is that just like traditional braces, Invisalign requires proper care to work effectively. Good oral hygiene is highly important, even when you are wearing something in your mouth that you can take out to eat with. It's still likely that your aligners can build up plaque if not treated properly. When wearing your Invisalign aligners, Glassman Dental Care wants you to ask yourself the following questions:

1. Am I eating with my aligners on? - These aligners are removable and should be taken out when you eat.
2. Am I drinking anything other than water with my aligners on? - Though it's not a necessity for you to take out your aligners while you drink, think about how sticky a soda is. If you take out your aligners when drinking a soda, you have a better chance of keeping your aligners clean.
3. Am I brushing before putting the trays on? - The aligners have both an inside and outside. Keeping the outside clean is easy. Keeping the inside clean is also easy: just make sure you've brushed your teeth before putting the trays on.

These are all very simple steps, and ultimately, they help to keep you building good oral habits. If you have any questions about Invisalign or your treatment here at Glassman Dental Care, give us a call!

Dr. Debra's Newest StyleList Article!

Dr. Debra Glassman was recently featured in an article on StyleList.com about the work she did for Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson. As the article explains, Dr. Glassman helped her achieve a smile to match her award! She accomplished this through the cosmetic dental expertise of Glassman Dental Care.

The following article, written by Dr. Steven Glassman, was published in the May 2010 issue of Inside Dentistry magazine as a featured Clinical Brief:

http://www.insidedentistry.net/article.php?id=3451

Friday, April 30, 2010 - 3:06 pm ET

'How To Get Your Teeth Whitened And Not Look Like Simon Cowell'

By: Jennifer Wright Comment

Looking as though you have naturally white, healthy teeth is great. Looking as though you have a mouth full of Chiclets isn’t. So how to do you given yourself a brighter smile without looking like you’re channelling Simon Cowell? Dr. Debra Glassman, creator of Star Brite whitening toothpaste fills us in.

Some people – like Simon Cowell – have bleached their teeth so much that they seem almost blue. What are those people doing wrong? Sometimes they have porcelain veneers and they choose a shade that’s too opaque. If you’re thinking of doing veneers it’s really important to have your dentist look at your whole palette. Think about your eyes and skin tone. And think about your personality, too! You want your teeth to blend in so it looks as though you were born with a natural, beautiful smile. Otherwise, it looks like the teeth are walking into the room before the person.

How can you help your dentist do that, beyond pointing to the fact that you have brown hair, and enjoy long walks on the beach?

One great thing you can do is bring in your high school photo. I also ask my patients to bring me in photos from magazines of smiles they DON’T like, as well as smiles they like. I do have some clients who really want that incredibly white smile, and I try to educate them on what’s important. You want someone to say, “wow, you have a beautiful smile” not “wow, you just got your teeth done.”

If you don’t want to do veneers, is bleaching a good alternative?

Bleaching is a great way to whiten your teeth. I really recommend the Zoom process. Look for Zoom 2.6. It’s a 45 minute procedure. We apply gel to the teeth in three 15 minute sessions. The process takes out all the impurities on the outer level of teeth and it will get you 8 to 10 shades whiter. I ask patients to use gel trays at home. Pop it in once a week and you’ll keep up that white color. Because it does still require some upkeep – after all, you’ll have blueberries, red wine, even soy sauce can stain your teeth a bit.

What’s the price difference between bleaching and getting veneers?

Zoom is $500 for all teeth, for veneers it starts at $1,500 a tooth. It’s more of an investment. If your teeth are nice and in alignment whitening will get you to a point where you’re happy. But if you have a very deep grey color and misshapen teeth you’ll want to do veneers. Porcelain veneers take two visits and a full smile can run you around $10,000. Though sometimes you just want a few veneers right in the front, and that’s less expensive.

What accounts for the price difference?

Porcelain lasts forever. Whitening is a major change, but how well it lasts depends on your habits. Can you have white wine instead of red? Sprite instead of Coke?
How well do any of the whitening toothpastes sold in drugstores actually work? Do they work at all?

I have my own toothpaste called StarBrite. It’s a great way to keep the whitening going. And StarBrite makes a huge difference by itself. Within two weeks your teeth will get whiter. And it fights cavities and gum disease. When you’re fighting gum disease that will help get your gums pinker, so your enamel will look whiter. When your gums are unhealthy they turn red, which makes your teeth look more yellow. By getting your gums healthy with a good toothpste and flossing will give you a nice pink frame around the picture. And at the same time the whitening agent will mean you’ll see a change in the tooth’s actual color as well.

Tune-in to LXTV (Channel 4 NY) tonight @ 5:00pm to see our very own Dr. Debra Glassman live!!

Glassman Dental Care would like to honor our patient, Jeff Koons, who was recently featured in the New York Times!

February 28, 2010
The Koons Collection
By RANDY KENNEDY

JEFF KOONS, at 55, is one of the world’s most famous living artists. And every night before drifting off to sleep in his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, he is able to survey the salmon-pink walls of his bedroom and commune with a small pantheon of the most famous artists of centuries past.

In one corner hangs an early-16th-century painted bust of a hollow-cheeked, very tender-looking Jesus by Quentin Massys, the first important painter of the Antwerp school. Across the way, perhaps reflecting Mr. Koons’s love of mingling the sacred and the profane, a risqué Fragonard stares back, showing a young woman cradling a pair of puppies at her bared breasts. But for the most part this extremely private collection, piled up salon style on the walls, seems far more classicist than Koonsian, like an eccentric little gallery transplanted from the Met: Manet, Courbet, Poussin and scholars’ delights like Nikolaus Knüpfer and Cornelis van Haarlem.

Over his big flat-screen television, where a late Picasso now on loan used to hang, is an 1873 Courbet that Mr. Koons particularly treasures. It’s a big, loving portrait of a mottled bull calf, glowering at the viewer with an unsettlingly human mixture of defiance and hamburger-meat fatalism.

“It looks like he’s set up to be slaughtered,” Mr. Koons said recently, smiling.
These days he is undoubtedly feeling kinship with his prize bull. Over the last several months Mr. Koons, who has always been a polarizing artist, has been at work in a role he has never assumed during his three-decade career, that of curator of other people’s art. Last summer he accepted an invitation by the New Museum of Contemporary Art to organize an exhibition of works from the important collection of the Greek billionaire Dakis Joannou, a collection in which Mr. Koons’s own work plays a pivotal part. That fact — along with Mr. Joannou’s close friendship with Mr. Koons and Mr. Joannou’s role as a trustee at the New Museum, though he is not underwriting the show or providing input — has caused some people, even in the insular contemporary-art world, to worry that the arrangement is too clubby.

This was part of Mr. Koons’s motivation for sitting down recently in his Chelsea studio to speak in detail for the first time about his life as a collector of art, not just as a creator of it. It’s a subject he has generally avoided over the years out of discretion and privacy, but he decided to engage with it as a way to demonstrate his deep, idiosyncratic engagement with the history of art (mostly Western) and history’s very literal role in many of his new paintings. More than that, he said, he wanted to make the case that, for many years now, he has viewed creating art and thinking about the works of art he loves as increasingly inseparable activities. “Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does,” he said. “I’m always looking for source material.”

While the New Museum runs a greater risk to its reputation if the show is poorly received, Mr. Koons has a lot riding on it too, not least because he wants to do well by the institution, which gave him his first solo exhibition in 1980, and by Mr. Joannou, whose collection is influential and widely admired. But as someone confident enough in his younger years to proclaim that he was picking up the mantle of Duchamp and Picasso and “taking us out of the 20th century” with his own work, Mr. Koons also wants to prove himself worthy of joining the ranks of well-known artists who have turned their talents successfully to organizing shows: Duchamp himself, in the 1920s and 1930s, with the Société Anonyme; Warhol, whose “Raid the Icebox I” at the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design in 1969 is legendary; Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum in 1990; and artists like Scott Burton, Elizabeth Murray and Chuck Close as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s Artist’s Choice series, inspired by a similar program at the National Gallery in London.

As he walks around his buzzing studio — which some visitors have compared to Santa’s workshop, but which has the bright, hygienic aura of a pharmaceutical lab or a high-end car-detailing shop, with more than 100 artists at work under Mr. Koons’s direction — his source material often blares out these days. Images of Roman marbles, mostly female nudes, peek out of his paintings. Dalí motifs abound. Warhol and the Venus of Willendorf and Roy Lichtenstein share unlikely quarters in other paintings. A strange stone carving in the shape of a vagina, probably part a Celtic fertility figure, that Mr. Koons recently came across on the Internet and bought (“I love to just look around on the computer after the kids go to bed”) was the centerpiece of another work in progress, being carefully painted by assistants on scaffolds.

But the art-historical dots that Mr. Koons connects in his own thinking about such works are plentiful to the point of teeming, and harder to see. The form of an inflatable lobster can simultaneously name-check Duchamp, Dalí and H. C. Westermann, the eccentric Chicago sculptor. A Dalí motif appearing in the new paintings, the image of a draped cloth from a 1969 work that Mr. Koons owns, leads him back to a painting he says he believes was the clear model for the cloth, “Venus Rising From the Sea — a Deception,” by Raphaelle Peale, America’s first notable still life painter (a work of whose Mr. Koons just missed out on buying at auction), which leads him forward again to Dalí’s last painting, “The Swallow’s Tail” from 1983, in which Mr. Koons said he can discern the form again, all but hidden.

Mr. Koons has collected since the beginning of his life as a professional artist, even before he could afford to pay for work. In the late 1970s, working in Chicago as a studio assistant for the painter Ed Paschke — working so hard to impress him, he said, that his fingers sometimes bled as he was stretching canvas — he traded a drawing for a Paschke print, which still hangs in his home.

By the late 1980s, as his star and his bank balance rose precipitously, he began to collect high-end work by artists he loved, like Lichtenstein, but he was forced to sell a lot of it during an acrimonious divorce and custody battle with his first wife, the Italian porn star and politician Ilona Staller. Those troubles, overlapping with a treacherous period in the late 1990s in which he and his backers almost bankrupted themselves trying to create elaborate stainless-steel sculptures, forced him to stop collecting altogether for a while.

But as his fortunes roared back in recent years, he began pouring a significant amount of his wealth into building a collection, joining high-profile contemporary artists like Damien Hirst and John Currin in concentrating heavily on old masters and 19th-century works. Mr. Koons’s choices are stylistically and historically diverse but tend to share a preoccupation with the body and sexuality, which is also a major theme in Mr. Joannou’s collection and Mr. Koons’s take on it, in a selection of more than 100 works by 50 artists. (The creepily corporeal title Mr. Koons coined for the show is “Skin Fruit,” a riff on a vulgar title of a work by the collective that calls itself assume vivid astro focus.)

Even by the standards of the art world, where language about art strays easily into deep and enigmatic waters, Mr. Koons’s way of explaining his own work is hard to take seriously, though he has always seemed to take it that way. With an ever-present warm smile and the comforting tones of a guidance counselor, he has spoken about how art “lets you kind of control physiology and the secretions that take place within the body,” how his art operates in “a morality theater trying to help the underdog,” how his balloon-based sculptures, at least sexually speaking, “really try to address whatever your interests are.” In a profile of Mr. Koons in The New Yorker in 2007 Calvin Tomkins observed that “it is possible to argue that no real connection exists between Koons’s work and what he says about it.”

The same might be said of the way Mr. Koons explains his reasons for collecting. He does so with a boyish excitement, rapid-firing requests to assistants at big computer screens to pluck images from his own collection or from anywhere in millennia of art history. His grasp of the historical details he cites is often shaky, but such precision doesn’t seem to matter much to Mr. Koons. His visual memory, on the other hand, often feels boundless, like a human version of Google image search. “I could do this all day,” he said at one point during two long visits to his studio.
What drew him to the Courbet bull, which he bought at a Sotheby’s auction in 2007, one of four paintings he owns by that artist? (Mr. Koons doesn’t like to talk about prices, but since he buys mostly at auction, they are more or less public; the Courbet bull, for example, went for $2.5 million, and the entire collection is easily worth more than 10 times that. It resides mostly in his bedroom for safety’s sake; he and his wife, Justine, have four young sons and a fifth child on the way.)

“I like this type work,” he said simply about the Courbet, then pointed to a brown patch on the bull’s fur vaguely shaped like the state of New Jersey and explained that he stares at the patch often and wonders whether it might represent “some form of, you know, soul or really a personal part” of Courbet’s own being. His main fascination with Knüpfer’s “Venus and Cupid” seems to be the spilled chamber pot at Venus’s side. Looking at a Manet nude, he talks about his appreciation for the “lack of violence” in Manet’s work and refers on separate occasions to a crease in the nude’s stomach, which he believes resembles a long-tailed sperm.

Lisa Phillips, the New Museum’s director, said in an interview that one reason she and the museum’s curators made the unusual decision to hand the Joannou show over to Mr. Koons was precisely because of his unconventional and compulsive way of looking at art, what the New Museum curator Massimiliano Gioni calls his “radical scopophilia.”

In work sessions as the show came together, Ms. Phillips said, he would use examples of work, new and old, “pointing to things that often would be the peripheral things in them, things that you might not see that were actually the things that were the most interesting to him — a monkey under someone’s foot, something like that.”

“He falls in love with these things; he’s obsessive,” she said, adding that as he began this month to install selections of work on the museum’s top floor — by Charles Ray, Tauba Auerbach, David Altmejd, Liza Lou, Kara Walker and others — she began to see exactly how unusual the show would look. “I don’t think many curators would have chosen those particular works to share that space.”

But some in the art world worry that because of the nature of Mr. Joannou’s collection itself, built primarily from the work of highly visible international art stars (Mr. Koons has selected only one of his own works), Mr. Koons’s adventurousness might have little room to play. Robert Storr, the dean of the Yale University School of Art and the organizer of the 2007 Venice Biennale, said that artist-organized shows often succeed because of the way artists find the “oddments” that trained curators, pursuing a more historical and formal mission, overlook.
“But in this case it’s very hard to see how the show could possibly result in that because this collection is already so much of a piece,” said Mr. Storr, who is also a painter, adding that in his opinion Mr. Koons’s taste in art is more unorthodox than Mr. Joannou’s, and that he would be more intrigued to see what Mr. Koons would do if invited to rummage around in the Met’s storage rooms.

It’s an idea that Mr. Koons would probably embrace with his trademark smile and some kind of pleasant, if strangely platitudinous, pronouncement. Standing in his studio next to an image of a radiant Poussin from his collection that practically leapt off a computer screen, he said, “When I view the world, I don’t think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.”

25th Anniversary Remake of "We Are The World"

Two Glassman Dental Care patients -- Jennifer Hudson and Randy Jackson -- are performing on the "We Are The World - 25 for Haiti" remake.

Chris talks about Invisalign and serenades the office

Under Armour's Derrell 'Dash' Poland's winning smile

Larry's new smile